He is possessed by Beelzebul

MONDAY 27 JANUARY (Mk 3,22-30)

In his First Letter, Saint John offers us a principle so that we can always know who comes from God and who instead comes from the devil: “Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God. In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother. For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not be amazed, (then,) brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him” (1Jn 3,7-15). Jesus cannot be possessed by the devil because all his words attest that they are most pure light, truth, charity, compassion, mercy, love, justice and piety. All his works that are always and only the purest good reveal it. When a person consecrates his whole life to the greater good towards his brothers, when for love he faces all suffering, when he earns nothing humanly speaking, indeed the good he does is the object of contempt, derision, slander and lies and despite everything there it is perseverance, all these things attest to his origin from God. There is no real good except from God.

Instead, he is from the Evil One who transforms good into evil, light into darkness, the omnipotence of God with which one acts in Satan’s license because he drives impure spirits away. This is a sin against both the historical and revealed truth. Being a combat to destroy the truth, it becomes a sin against the Holy Spirit. Today many of Jesus’ disciples are exposed to this sin, which is unforgivable and unjustifiable in life and in death. Many are those who are playing both with the eternal, divine, human truth of Christ the Lord, as well as with his mission of Light, truth, Grace and Eternal Life. Today there is a hidden and invisible struggle to destroy Christ Jesus in all that is revealed truth, sanctioned by the Holy Spirit and witnessed by history in him. Since the Church is from the truth of Christ, if Christ falls, the Church falls. If the Church falls, pope, bishops, presbyters, deacons, baptized and confirmed fall from their truth. They turn into harmful falsehood and lie for the world. Defending Christ, the Church defends herself. But even the Christian defends his uniqueness and difference in history.

The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.” Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.” For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Faith is most pure logic. Logic is divine intelligence and rationality. When a man of faith is devoid of logic and rationality, he attests that he is without the Holy Spirit. Whoever does not see that the Church is the body of Christ, sent to make disciples of all peoples, and declares Christ not necessary for salvation, he declares the whole body of Christ not necessary for salvation. If the body of Christ is not necessary, what is the Church for? Here is our sin against the Holy Spirit. Here is how big our foolishness is. We are blind and guides of blind people. We are destroying ourselves, by destroying Christ.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints make us return to the most pure sources of Christ’s truth.